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Denise Trauth has been president of Texas State University since 2002. But never before has she sent an open letter to the university community quite like the one that emerged from her reflections during the Thanksgiving break.

“I personally used much of the time to review and mull over the emails, resolutions and letters I have received during the last three weeks pertaining to the presidential election and the events …

Denton Cooley, the world-famous heart surgeon, died Friday at the age of 96. Gregory L. Fenves, president of the University of Texas, where Cooley majored in zoology and graduated in 1941 with honors, released the following statement:

“Denton Cooley created new standards of care and drove changes in medicine that improved and saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients around the world. The University of Texas prepares leaders who …

Barry McBee, the vice chancellor and chief governmental relations officer for the University of Texas System, was his usual crisp and efficient self when he rattled off the system’s priorities for the state legislative session that begins in January.

Some of the priorities he outlined at a meeting Thursday of the UT System Board of Regents could face considerable debate in the Legislature. Examples:

Nicole Eversmann, a student at Austin Community College, broke a glass ceiling of sorts on Tuesday by narrowly winning a seat on the college’s Board of Trustees. College officials say students have run for the …

The Texas Supreme Court has settled a squabble over timing in the case of Wallace L. Hall Jr. v. William H. McRaven. The court on Friday granted lawyers for McRaven, chancellor of the University of Texas System, extra time to respond to legal papers filed against the chancellor by Hall, a member of the system’s Board of Regents.

A healthy boost in pay for Karen Aston, the women’s basketball coach at the University of Texas, was approved Friday by the UT System Board of Regents as expected.

Aston’s annual guaranteed compensation rose $156,187, or 25 percent, to $777,500. Nonguaranteed pay, based on how well the team does, could bump her earnings up by as much as $195,000 for a total of $972,500; that’s $130,687 more than her maximum possible …

As my colleague Peter Blackstock has reported, singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne canceled his concert scheduled for Thursday at the University of Texas’ Bass Concert Hall. LaMontagne’s reason: the state law expanding the rights of handgun licensees to carry such weapons in a concealed manner on public college campuses.

LaMontagne is not the only prominent person to step away from UT on account of the law. Earlier, the sociologist and civil rights …